Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.